Fail Safe (1964) is a thriller movie directed by Sidney Lumet. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.

★ 8.1 · 6,407 votes · Comedy, War
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.
Movies like Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb →
★ 7.9 · 1,501 votes · Comedy, War
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.
Movies like Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! →
★ 7.9 · 4,499 votes · Drama, History, War
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.

★ 6.9 · 861 votes · Thriller, Drama
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell, and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, Farrell is put in charge of the murder investigation. He begins to uncover shocking clues about the case, but when details of his encounter with Susan surface, he becomes a suspect as well.
Movies like No Way Out →
★ 6.4 · 2,067 votes · Thriller, Action, Drama
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.
Movies like The Sum of All Fears →
★ 6.8 · 1,541 votes · Drama, Thriller
The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent to find out exactly where the nukes are.
Movies like Unthinkable →
★ 6.3 · 1,563 votes · Drama, Action, Thriller
The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent and his team attempt to locate and decommission the enemy cells, but must also deal with an Army General gone rogue and a female CIA agent of uncertain loyalties.
Movies like The Siege →
★ 7.0 · 1,808 votes · Drama, Thriller, War
A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
Movies like Eye in the Sky →
★ 6.6 · 458 votes · Thriller, Drama, Crime
Follow Ted Kaczynski's transformation from Harvard prodigy into the infamous Unabomber. Subjected to controversial psychological experiments by Professor Henry Murray, Kaczynski's troubled past resurfaces decades later when his manhunt, led by FBI agent Joanne Miller, brings to light the chilling consequences of ambition and isolation.
Movies like UNABOMBER →
★ 7.1 · 1,708 votes · Drama, History, Thriller
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
Movies like United 93 →
★ 6.4 · 2,272 votes · Drama, Action, Thriller
During an historic counter-terrorism summit in Spain, the President of the United States is struck down by an assassin's bullet. Eight strangers have a perfect view of the kill, but what did they really see? As the minutes leading up to the fatal shot are replayed through the eyes of each eyewitness, the reality of the assassination takes shape.
Movies like Vantage Point →
★ 7.0 · 5,068 votes · Thriller, Drama
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.
Movies like Zero Dark Thirty →
★ 6.7 · 633 votes · Drama, Action, Thriller
A chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of Hussein's sadistic son.
Movies like The Devil's Double →
★ 6.4 · 1,424 votes · Thriller, Drama
When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.
Movies like A House of Dynamite →